Western Rider: Simulation With Narrative

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The definitive guide to the smart card industry.

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Completely revised and updated, the 8th edition of The Smart Card Report examines the smart card market and major end-use sectors, identifying their needs for smart cards, assessing growth prospects and highlighting market opportunities.

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Rutledge combines the legal analysis of a prosecuting attorney with the practical experience of a former police officer. He offers dozens of tactical tips in "plain talk." CRIMINAL INTERROGATION covers every aspect of Miranda. Rutledge makes sense of Supreme Court decision issues, while convincingly dispelling many "Miranda myths" that have haunted officers for years. This text is an excellent supplemental reader to expand on the topic of interrogation. Your students will come away with a superior understanding of this difficult art.

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Understanding miranda and interrogation, made easy!!!.......2005-03-11

Everything in this book is very easy reading. It really makes it easy for anybody to understand how Miranda and interrogation works. You find out the other parts involved in interrogation other than Miranda. It gives specific instances for when you need to mirandize someone and when you don't need to mirandize them. A perfect addition to any Police Officer's reading material.

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Criminal Interrogation Laws and Tactics
Devallis Rutledge
Manufacturer: Copperhouse Pub Co
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0942728629

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An innovative discussion of building empirical models and the fitting of surfaces to data. Introduces the general philosophy of response surface methodology, and details least squares for response surface work, factorial designs at two levels, fitting second-order models, adequacy of estimation and the use of transformation, occurrence and elucidation of ridge systems, and more. Some results are presented for the first time. Includes real-life exercises, nearly all with solutions.

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An invaluable resource.......2001-05-31

This text give a top to bottom account of model building via RSM. If you have a question, consult this book.

great practical text for applied statisticians.......2000-08-10

George Box and Norman Draper have written an outstanding text on model building and response surface methods. This is an excellent companion to Box's text with Stu Hunter and William Hunter on experimental designs "Statistics for Experimenters". Another excellent, more recent and detailed account of response surface methods can be found in the book by Montgomery and Myers.

Excellent book.......1999-01-14

I do a lot of experimental work for my research and this book is definetely a good investment. I rate it amongst the best in the subject

Modelling of the performance of asphalt pavement using response surface methodology [An article from: Building and Environment]

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Modelling of the performance of asphalt pavement using response surface methodology [An article from: Building and Environment]
L.E. Chavez-Valencia , A. Manzano-Ramirez , and Luna-Bar
Manufacturer: Elsevier
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Binding: Digital
ASIN: B000RR5P1U

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This digital document is a journal article from Building and Environment, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Response surface methodology (RSM) is a practical and useful statistical procedure to develop empirical models for predicting asphalt pavement properties. In this work three empirical models were developed to predict the load and the flow resistance increment (@DL and @DF, respectively) according to ASTM D 5581 [Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Section 4, Construction, vol. 04.03, Roads and Paving Material; Vehicle-pavement Systems] and the ''volatilised material'' (VM) according to ASTM D 1188 [Annual Book of ASTM Standards, Section 4, Construction, vol. 04.03, Roads and Paving Material; Vehicle-pavement Systems] via RSM using the obtained properties of the specimens placed in a conventional oven for laboratory aging. In addition a mechanistic-empirical (M-E) model was proposed to describe the increment and decrement in surface course properties due to aging (A). The adequacy of the predicted properties by the models was demonstrated with the cores properties extracted from a pilot road.

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Discover the flexibility to teach science your way

The Changing Surface of Earth, as a part of the Glencoe Science 15-Book Series, provides students with accurate and comprehensive coverage of weathering and erosion as it shapes Earth’s surface. The strong content coverage integrates a wide range of hands-on experiences, critical-thinking opportunities, and real-world applications. The modular approach allows you to mix and match books to meet your curricula.

Glencoe Science: The Changing Surface Of Earth Student Edition (glencoe Science)

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Glencoe Science: The Changing Surface Of Earth Student Edition (glencoe Science)
McGraw-Hill
Manufacturer: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OGX0W0

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From the field of nonequilibrium statistical physics, this graduate- and research-level volume treats the modeling and characterization of dissipative phenomena. A variety of examples from diverse disciplines like condensed matter physics, materials science, metallurgy, chemical physics etc. are discussed. Dattagupta employs the broad framework of stochastic processes and master equation techniques to obtain models for a wide range of experimentally relevant phenomena such as classical and quantum Brownian motion, spin dynamics, kinetics of phase ordering, relaxation in glasses, dissipative tunneling. It provides a pedagogical exposition of current research material and will be useful to experimentalists, computational physicists and theorists.

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“I thought it was brilliant, really brilliant. What a smart boy Tristram is.”—Mrs. Hoosier

“I'm really a lot cooler than the book makes me out to be.”—Jason Hoosier

“Okay, so Tristram wrote a book. Big deal. Anybody could do that. He thinks he's so big all of a sudden. But I can still kick his ass, and he better never forget it.”—Aaron Hoosier

Tristram Hoosier, age 12, gets in a fight at school over a haircut, becomes a vegetarian for a day, sneaks out to watch a midnight movie and builds a fort in the woods—perfectly normal activities for a seventh-grader growing up in Indiana. But he is surrounded by an endless string of tragic and sometimes criminal characters that lend each story a uniquely comic twist.

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Okay, but not all I was hoping for

An outstanding and unique study of what may frequently be used against various unstable governments

How to stop a military coup

How to Stage a Military Coup: From Planning to Execution
David Hebditch , and Ken Connor
Manufacturer: Greenhill Books
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1853677469

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The coup remains the single most common form of power change throughout the world. The government being targeted by a coup attempt could be democratically elected, a long-standing dictatorship, or nothing more than a junta put in place by the previous month’s coup. The motivation will always be lust for power, patriotism, greed or exploitation. It is usually a combination of power, greed and exploitation disguised as patriotism. How to Stage a Military Coup explores these violent and often bloody appropriations of authority, alongside the political, military, and social conditions out of which they arise. Taking into account factors such as timing, media control, popular support, and government organizational structure, and by drawing on examples of coups from all over the world, both failed and successful, the authors reveal exactly what it takes to carry out a successful government take-over.

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Okay, but not all I was hoping for.......2006-10-02

I was looking for a bit more of an academic study to complement Edward Luttwak's Coup D'Etat; what I got was an engaging but light read on coups written with a sort of jovial cynicism that may be entertaining to some some readers. For example, there is sample speech for the new head of state (or coup PR man) to deliver, complete with helpfully labeled blanks such as "INSERT NAME OF HATED FOREIGN STATE" or "INSERT NAME OF FOUNDING FATHER OF NATION/POPULAR HERO"; or the reference to "political science" being "an oxymoron in the same league as "military intelligence." One of the authors of the book is Ken Connor, who, according to the dust jacket, is the longest serving member of Britain's SAS. If that is the case, surely there were times in his career where he benefitted from good intelligence, we would hope at least as often as he suffered from a lack of it. But regardless, it's hard to take the book seriously when it goes for the cheap laugh with an old joke. Given the recent coup in Thailand, I'm still looking for something that better explains the complex interplay between the state, its citizens, and the military, whose own relations to the first two entities is likely in most countries to be far different from that which we take for granted in the US.

An outstanding and unique study of what may frequently be used against various unstable governments .......2006-04-05

How To Stage A Military Coup: From Planning To Execution by David Hebditch and Ken Connor is an interesting and thought-provoking exploration of the military empowerment of obtaining placement in government through the exercise of military force or the threat of such force. Introducing the reader to a detailed and in-depth understanding (which Connor has had first hand experience) of the act known as a military coup or coup d'etat, How To Stage A Military Coup is an outstanding and unique study of what may frequently be used against various unstable governments throughout the world. How To Stage A Military Coup is particularly recommended to students of politics, international studies, and the utilization of military power with a role in establishing and/or overthrowing governments.

How to stop a military coup.......2005-12-09

The new book by David Hebditch and Ken Connor, author of "Ghost Force: The Secret History of the SAS", appears to be a guide to planning and executing a military coup...
Clearly from the title alone this is NOT the sort of book that should be required reading for defence force personnel.
But Hebditch and Connor's book is far from an endorsement of illegal activities by defence forces but rather a highly informative guide to the evil practice of coups written in a surprisingly entertaining format.
Taking advantage of a fictional narrative introducing each chapter, about what appears to be British special forces launching a coup in the UK, and Hebditch's ironic writing style the reader is treated to the equivalent of a university education on coups without hardly noticing it.
Throughout the book Ken Connor makes many observations from his own personal experience as the longest serving member of the British Special Air Service, 23 years that put him up close with the realities of military coups.
The book explores the history of the modern coup, there were 14 coups or coup attempts in 2004 alone, and looks at why and how they happen.
Its does so by referring to the human experience of these coups, not high-blown academic interpretation, and still retains a certain dark humour.
Ultimately the book is a work of military history and illuminates this rarely talked about unsavoury element of the military experience that is fortunately outside the modern history of English speaking nations.
However with many soldiers serving overseas from western countries understanding military coups is vital not only to protect our own force but also to promote respect for legitimate government in our allied forces.
"How to stage a military coup" should be read by military personnel to prepare them for the challenges of operating overseas and for some good entertainment.
Who knows, maybe knowing how to stage a coup will help a western soldier from stopping one in its tracks.
- Abraham Gubler, editor DefenceToday: Defence Capabilities Magazine

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The Charismatics

As engrossing as any Clancy novel!

Useful

Complex period in history made "readable"...

Comprehensive Study of the Kennedy-Khrushchev Relationship

The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963
Michael R. Beschloss
Manufacturer: Harpercollins
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0060164549

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The Charismatics.......2005-08-31

This book rescued me from the recent Taubman biography of Khruschev. Not that I didn't thoroughly enjoy Taubman...up until the point that Kennedy was assassinated. Somehow, without Kennedy to reflect off of, or react off of, or bark at, or explode at, Khruschev became rather dull.

This book, winding as it does completely around the relationship between the leaders of the two superpowers, their mistrusts of each other, their odd affection for each other, their correspondence, and their dangerous, global risk-taking flare-ups, proves far more interesting. Beschloss creates characters full of life and vigor, sympathetic and sometimes frightening, as when Khruschev threatens war over Berlin, or when we learn the details of the narcotics the President required to manage his back pain.

The book also manages to set the stage for years and years of politics to come, in space policy, in cold war strategy, and in the Vietnam war.

As engrossing as any Clancy novel!.......2004-07-31

Michael R. Beschloss' 1991 book, The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khruschev 1960-1963, is a literary rarity: a history book about a complex and critical period in the 20th Century that is so well-written that it reads like a novel.

Beschloss describes the dramatic events of the period that began shortly before the Presidential election of 1960 and ended with the dreadful events of November 22, 1963, focusing on the interplay between President John F. Kennedy and Chairman Nikita S. Khruschev. These two men from vastly different worlds -- one the son of a self-made millionaire from Boston, the other the son of Russian peasants who had been semiliterate until his thirties -- held the fate of the world in their hands.

The Crisis Years discusses in great detail the most dramatic events of the Cold War, including JFK's first meeting with the Soviet leader in Vienna, the Bay of Pigs fiasco, the building of the Berlin Wall (including a photo capturing the only time American tanks and Soviet tanks faced off), the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the signing of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty that marked the first thaw in the frosty relations between the superpowers.

This book is sadly out of print, but it's definitely a must-read for readers who want to know more about this critical period in world history.

Useful.......2002-01-28

Interesting to note that Castro came to the UN after the Cuban revolution in the hope of normalising relations with the US but was rebuffed. There then followed the Bay of Pigs. If cooler heads had prevailed and approachement made at that point, we may have been living in a totally different world today. A banal observation, admitedly. Certainly, US intransigence led to a more absolutist and repressive Castro.
Kennedy indeed felt that Khrushchev had outclassed him when it came to discussing political ideology on first meeting, but Kennedy did focus on the crux of the whole matter. The nation that could provide best materially for it's people would be the winner of the cold war. Krushchev ended up in a hut in the country somewhere, an 'expendable hero' as Harry Palmer once joked to an old Bolschevic in the film 'Funeral In Berlin'.

Complex period in history made "readable"..........2001-04-27

Michael Beschloss has done what every history writer should aspire to...make complex history telling "readable". Even though this book is very long, it flows very smoothly without missing any of the details of that "Crisis" era. I love books on the Cuban Missile Crisis and have found very few that would be characterized above the "textbook" level, but this one surely meets that tough standard. This book should be included in every "Crisis" historians library.

Comprehensive Study of the Kennedy-Khrushchev Relationship.......2001-04-13

This is a massive (700 page), comprehensive, if not especially analytic, study of the United States' relationship with the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, told from the perspectives of the superpowers' leaders, John Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev. At the beginning of his administration, Kennedy may have had sincere desire to improve relations with the Soviets, but his famous inaugural address was interpreted by many as a committed cold warrior's call to arms, and, as Beschloss's title implies, a series of foreign policy crises followed. Often in minute detail, Beschloss discusses the disastrous invasion of Cuba by opponents of Fidel Castro at the Bay of Pigs, the construction of the Berlin Wall, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, and the Cuban missile crisis. For those who enjoy narrative history liberally sprinkled with portraits of colorful personalities, this is a fascinating book.

There is little in this book which is new, but much of it bears repeating, especially for readers too young to remember the early 1960s. However odious Castro's dictatorship was to become, the attempt to topple it in the spring of 1961 was destined to fail. According to Beschloss, one of Kennedy's advisers warned him that "he could not recall a single case in history when refugees returned and successfully overthrew a revolutionary regime." The Berlin crisis that summer did not escalate into a nuclear confrontation because, as Kennedy observed: "A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war." And Beschloss writes about the missile crisis that the 39 hours' warning of the naval quarantine that Kennedy gave Khrushchev "demonstrated the President's wisdom in starting his response not with an irreversible air strike but with milder pressures that gave Khrushchev time to ponder his move."

Some of Beschloss's observations about the leaders border on gossip. He lends credence to reports that Khrushchev could be a buffoon who occasionally drank too much and that Kennedy's enthusiastic womanizing continued while he was president. But personal traits and predilections often could not be separated from matters of substance. For instance, the author reports that Kennedy was regularly treated by a medical practitioner with "vitamin shots" which "also contained amphetamines, steroids, hormones, and animal organ cells." Beschloss proceeds to explain the importance of this revelation: "Even in small doses, amphetamines cause side effects such as nervousness, garrulousness, impaired judgment, overconfidence, and, when the drug wears off, depression." Beschloss implies that Kennedy may have been under the influence of amphetamines at his summit meeting with Khrushchev in the spring of 1961, when the Soviet leader, by Kennedy's own admission, "just beat hell out of me." Beschloss concludes that Kennedy "should have been vastly more careful in pursuing his medical experimentation than he had been as a Senator. The stakes now were not one political career but literally the fate of the world."

This book is not without its limitations. As I implied above, it is much stronger on narrative than analysis, and some passages give the impression that Beschloss was more interested in the personalities of Kennedy and Khrushchev than in the substance of the policies they devised and pursued. Beschloss's discussion of Kennedy's approach to the growing conflict in Vietnam is brief and generally superficial. The book's organization is quirky: The role of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in the development of Kennedy's national-security policy is barely mentioned until page 400. And the index is not entirely reliable. (For instance, the index's listing for Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, inexplicably omits reference to Beschloss's description of a critical briefing Lemnitzer gave to the President in September 1961 in which the "bottom line" was that "the United States enjoyed vast nuclear superiority.")

While I was preparing this review, I discovered that this book, which was published in 1991, is already out of print, and that surprised me a bit. Some aspects of it clearly have been superceded by more recent scholarship, such as Lawrence Freedman's Kennedy's Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam, which I reviewed here shortly after it was published last November, but I believe that Beschloss's book continues to be of value. The magnificent 19th-century English historian Thomas Carlyle once wrote: "The history of the world is but the biography of great men." Few eras provide more validation for Carlyle's perspective than the crisis years of 1961 and 1962, dominated as they were by the intensely personal diplomacy of Kennedy and Khrushchev. Beschloss's coverage of that aspect of U.S.-U.S.S.R. relations during this period is superb.

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THE CRISIS YEARS - KENNEDY AND KHRUSHCHEV 1960 - 1963
BESCHLOSS MICHAEL R.
Manufacturer: HARPER COLLINS
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000PGI13W

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The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-1963
Michael R. Beschloss
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
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Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OA4EX0

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The study of combinatorial isoperimetric problems exploits similarities between discrete optimization problems and the classical continuous setting. Based on his many years of teaching experience, Larry Harper focuses on global methods of problem solving. His text will enable graduate students and researchers to quickly reach the most current state of research in this topic. Harper includes numerous worked examples, exercises and material about applications to computer science.

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